Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα vi
... of novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry - as read- able , in short prehensiveness . as was consistent with accuracy and com- CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH Language . Britons — TO THE READER .
... of novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry - as read- able , in short prehensiveness . as was consistent with accuracy and com- CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH Language . Britons — TO THE READER .
Σελίδα 30
... short , as cannot but possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and ...
... short , as cannot but possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and ...
Σελίδα 31
... short , the tendency of our remarks is to show , not that the Saxon was incapable of expressing even the most complex and refined ideas , but that , by a curious fatality , those words have generally given place , in the tongue of the ...
... short , the tendency of our remarks is to show , not that the Saxon was incapable of expressing even the most complex and refined ideas , but that , by a curious fatality , those words have generally given place , in the tongue of the ...
Σελίδα 33
... short , all the Teutonic languages into the structure of which enter one or the other of these letters , to be convinced that the th , the d , and the w play a most considerable part . The pronunciation of every language must obviously ...
... short , all the Teutonic languages into the structure of which enter one or the other of these letters , to be convinced that the th , the d , and the w play a most considerable part . The pronunciation of every language must obviously ...
Σελίδα 42
... short , almost every author of the times seems to be on his guard against that tor- rent of Italianisms , Gallicisms , and Spanish terms , which was soon to invade the language- " taffeta phrases , silken terms precise . " Arthur ...
... short , almost every author of the times seems to be on his guard against that tor- rent of Italianisms , Gallicisms , and Spanish terms , which was soon to invade the language- " taffeta phrases , silken terms precise . " Arthur ...
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Σελίδα 71 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Σελίδα 241 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Σελίδα 191 - ... of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...
Σελίδα 234 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Σελίδα 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Σελίδα 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Σελίδα 51 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Σελίδα 134 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Σελίδα 168 - Gods; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.